RE: its hard

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

I don't think there's anything wrong with the songwriting.  I just don't 
much care for the performances.  The music is similar in style to WHO ARE 
YOU, which is one of my favorite Who albums, but somehow the album has a 
stark, spare, unfinished quality about it.  The gap may be in the drums, I 
think.  Where normally Moon would have filled in the spaces, Jones only 
sketches out the timing.

keets


> >Do you think on its hard he was blocked and couldn't come up with any 
>songs and maybe that was a small problem with the album?
>
> >-dr. jimmy
>
>It wasn't that he was blocked so much as he thought he had written as well 
>as he could on "Face Dances" but the band and his friends thought he was 
>getting too personal. With "It's Hard" his initial intent was to make a 
>"band" album so he wouldn't carry all of the blame if it failed. It did 
>anyway (certainly with the band and his friends), Pete caught the blame and 
>that's the primary reason we haven't had a new Who album since.
>
>That said, I think Pete manipulated Roger, John and Kenney into doing the 
>album he wanted to do all along; that is, a political critique of the '60's 
>generation and how he thought it had failed. Needless to say, although it 
>could have used some more fleshing out (and more guitar), I think he did a 
>damn good job.

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